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JOURNAL 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



T H E A R T $. 



JANUARY i8oo. 



ARTICLE L 



Jiccount of the improvements made on the Farm, in the great Park of his Majefly, the 

 King, at Windfor. By Nathaniel Kent, Efq. 



(Concluded from our lajl.j 



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EXT to the advantage obtained from oxen, as much benefit as poflible has been 

 endeavoured to be derived from flieepby means of the fold. Two ewe flocks are kept, 

 •of four hundred eachf the foil being light and dry, admits of winter folding (except 

 when the weather is wet) upon the young clover ; — a praftice much to be recommended, 

 a^ it produces a great crop of clover, and prepares the land the enfuing autumn for a 

 crop of wheat without any further afiiftance. Another excellent praftice is folding upon 

 light land, in dry weather, immediately upon the fowing of the wheat, or kept back a 

 fortnight or three weeks on that account ; an^ it is not amifs to have the fold rather 

 large, and to give the fheep a turn or two round the fold in a morning before they are 

 let 9ii,t to tread and fettle the land, which does a great deal of good over and above 

 their dung. 



A third method of folding has been found to anfwer almoft beyond defcrij^tion. Tliis 

 was firft tried in the winter of 1793 ; but from an idea of the IhepherJ, that it injured 

 the flieep, has been fince difufed : but as there is good reafon to believe that there 

 was no juft ground for fuch an opinion, it is meant to be revived next winter. 



Vol. in. — January 1800. 3K A 



